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among the tangle at the roots of the Laminaria digitata, and have afterwards reared 

 them into the full adult characteristics. I am of opinion that the Planes Linnaeana 

 cannot be considered as really a British species in any other light than as an occasional 

 visitor. If it occurred regularly it might be considered as an established portion of 

 the Fauna of Cornwall ; or if it appeared in flocks it might be looked on as a migra- 

 tory species ; but inasmuch as it occurs singly, and after long intervals, its occurrence 

 must, I think, be considered, in some measure, accidental. It is chiefly found as an 

 inhabitant of the Sargasso, or Gulf-weed, which is found in such enormous fields in 

 the Atlantic, and which is drifted from the shores of the West Indies and the 

 surroundiug mainland." 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



' General Outline of the Organization of the Animal Kingdom, and 

 Manual of Comparative Anatomy? By Thomas Rymer Jones, 

 F.R.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's College, 

 London, late Fullerian Professor of Physiology to the Royal 

 Institution of Great Britain, &c, &c. Second Edition. London : 

 Van Voorst. 1855. 842 pp. 8vo ; 400 engravings on wood: 

 price £l lis. 6d. 



This second edition of a very useful compilation is immeasurably 

 superior to the first, and will be hailed with pleasure by the students 

 of comparative anatomy. Mr. Jones is a pleasing and flowery writer, 

 and has the tact to interweave the labours of comparative anatomists 

 with each other, and to blend them together so harmoniously that it 

 is impossible for the student to detect the quarry from whence each 

 stone of the well-built fabric was originally hewn. In every respect 

 the second edition is an improvement. The author wisely expunges 

 from the Preface itself a very uncalled-for attack on those philosophical 

 naturalists who trace, in the multitudinous facts spread before them, 

 evidence of a design far more important, far more indicative of Omni- 

 science and Omnipotence, than the mere facts themselves, however 

 wonderful. Mr. Jones is one of those anatomists whom philosophers 

 must always delight to see working in the right direction, but in whom 

 all attemps to undervalue the far-seeing and synthetic speculations of 

 maturer minds are ill-judged: they remind one of the Cockney who, 

 returning from a trip on the Continent, declared that French, Italians 

 and Germans were alike badly off for a language. The objectionable 

 paragraph is entirely removed, and is replaced by the following : — 



" Since the publication of the preceding edition, however, great and 

 important advances have been made in our knowledge : many and 



